Ezra's gift of generating food from his hands strengthens his relationships with friends and transforms him from "zero" to "school hero".

In Scorsese's film, food and feasting reveal the artificial pretense of 1870s New York society, and also symbolize its hierarchy of power.

Lester Burnham: From Creepy to Caring – Cooking and being in the kitchen illustrate that Lester is changing from an infatuated man going